Competition Policy in Selection Markets

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Neale Mahoney, Andre Veiga, Glen Weyl, Oct 15, 2014

One of the oldest arguments against both competition and the policies promoting it is the problem of cream-skimming. In selectionmarkets, like insurance and finance, where some customers are cheaper to serve than others, competitors have an incentive to poach the most lucrative customers from their rivals, the “cream.” As Rothschild & Stiglitz and de Meza & Webb fam